Cassidy Dawn Graves
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Oat Milk Soft Serve Comes to Williamsburg
You might have to take a shuttle bus to get it, but you can now enjoy a frozen treat made from the latest trendy dairy substitute: oat milk. The Boston-based, woman-owned Whipped Urban Dessert Lab has now officially set up shop in Williamsburg’s North 3rd Street Market, where they’ll be serving oat milk soft serve(...) → Read More
How the Voyeuristic World of Timestop Porn Entered the Mainstream
A Japanese gym teacher is watching his class of 10 young women jump rope. He grins and takes out a colorful stopwatch. “Stop!” he yells,... → Read More
Meet Indie-Rock Multitasker Pronoun
One of the topics Alyse Vellturo, who makes music under the name pronoun, mentions most during our interview is how she’s not that great at playing instruments. “Whenever people are like, ‘Don’t put yourself down,’ I’m like, ‘I am not putting myself down.’ I think it is very impressive that I made an album and did not know how to play these instruments,” she(...) → Read More
An Abortion Musical That Leans Into The Weird
Brenson Thomas, Brett Ashley Robinson, Alice Yorke, Jaime Maseda, Katie Gould, Scott R Sheppard, and Lee Minora in THE APPOINTMENT (Photo: Oona Curley) A popular tactic for those in support of abortion access is emphasizing that when a fetus is aborted, it is more akin to a small clump of cells than anything already living. But ... → Read More
The YouTubers Who Destroy Their Suits to Get You Off
It usually starts with the tie. After the male guide-slash-model puts on a new pair of slacks — the final piece to a besuited look... → Read More
Tumblr’s Banished NSFW Community Is Still Looking for a Safe Haven
It’s been three weeks since Tumblr’s ban on adult content decimated the platform’s kink community, sending thousands of consumers and creators scrambling to find a... → Read More
Tumblr Users Spent Years Reporting Child Porn. They Say the Site Ignored Them.
It took ArcturusXXXIII two clicks to end up on a Tumblr page filled with apparent child porn. They say they’d simply gotten a follow, opened... → Read More
These Anti-Creep Posters Are Coming to Halloween Parties, and Could Become Law
(flyer courtesy of Anya Saphozhnikova)If you ask Anya Sapozhnikova, co-founder of glitzy Bushwick club and venue House of Yes, Halloween is the biggest party season in New York. It’s also “kind of the most consent violation-y weekend of the whole year,” she tells me, something that’s far scarier than any ghouls or fake blood. ... → Read More
‘Dewy Dudes’ and the Fresh New World of Skincare Memes for Men
Since essentially the dawn of marketing, skincare products have been peddled to men in more or less the same exact way — in blue or... → Read More
Now Showing: Sadness, as Videology Bar + Cinema Announces Closing
Yesterday, we told you about some new additions to Williamsburg, like a shiny Chase Bank and a Sephora, joining the ranks of a nearby Apple Store and Whole Foods. As much as the neighborhood seemed to be turning into a replica of chain-laden Manhattan, some ... → Read More
The Dominatrix Duo Demystifying Kink on Periscope –
Mistress Lucy Sweetkill won’t show you her feet. Not on her Periscope broadcast, anyway, where the professional dominatrix is about to interview Katie Rex — a DJ who runs a fetish techno party called… → Read More
Art About America and More Exhibitions Opening This Week
Amurikana Opening Wednesday, July 4 at Con Artist Collective, 7 pm to 11 pm. The 4th of July falls on a Wednesday this year, which for the people with Real Jobs means you probably have to drink less than you would if it was on a weekend. ... → Read More
Mad Props: Acme Studio Leaves Williamsburg For Bushwick
What may be the "most unique studio in New York" (and the only one to continually throw a party featuring a live llama) has left its longtime home on Williamsburg's North 3rd Street and Kent Avenue. As of June 1, ACME Studio has moved its operations entirely to ... → Read More
Plant-Based Picture Show: Alamo Drafthouse To Offer Vegan Menu
If you've never been able to awkwardly murmur your food order to a server in the dark while a movie is playing due to your dietary restrictions, soon you will have your time to shine. Indeed, Alamo Drafthouse will unveil a new vegan ... → Read More
Tonight, A Chasm Of Art And Performance Opens Again In Brooklyn
In December 2016, we spoke with artist and curator Julia Sinelnikova (known in some circles as The Oracle) about her festival CHASM, which intended to be four days of music, multimedia art, DJ sets, and more in a secret, industrial East Williamsburg location. However, four days became just two—it ... → Read More
An Exhibit Pairing Death and Femininity Brings Life To Bushwick
Last week at Bushwick gallery Powrplnt, a group of colorfully-dressed folk sat down and discussed gender. They spoke of societal constructs, deadnames, toxic masculinity, and how norms surrounding body hair can be racist, all while surrounded by eager listeners and an array of art and zines. While ... → Read More
Art This Week: Life-Size Rhinos, Lower East Side Grit, and More
Things Opening Tuesday, May 15 at Gagosian, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through June 23. When you look into the body of work that Swiss artist Urs Fischer is created, you’ll quickly see a common theme is how the human form can be manipulated and distorted, whether ... → Read More
The Last Art Show at Silent Barn Is an Education in Skincare
If you’re even slightly interested in skincare, it would be hard to ignore the current popularity of K-beauty, or Korean cosmetics and skincare products such as sheet masks, serums, and snail-slime face creams. Many of these products contain lactic acid, an organic compound that’s also used in fermentation ... → Read More
CB Lets Club Cumming Sing Again, With Some Restrictions
A drag queen let me into Community Board 3’s State Liquor Authority licensing committee meeting on Monday night. Inside, she was joined by a bevy of others who came out in droves to support Club Cumming, actor Alan Cumming’s East Village bar that recently ran into trouble due to ... → Read More
‘Downtown Was My Heaven’: Generations of Performers Revisit Club 57
Last Thursday, the theater at MoMA went back to the 20th century when Performing Difference: Gender in the 1980s Downtown Scene, a day of panel discussions presented in conjunction with the exhibit "Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in ... → Read More